Big Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Big Data Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 396 436
Rank change year-on-year +45 +40 +61
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 4 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.009% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.010% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £306 £479 -
25th Percentile £343 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year -27.11% +18.42% -33.10%
75th Percentile £558 £628 £488
90th Percentile £643 £656 -
UK median daily rate £410 £800 £525
% change year-on-year -48.75% +52.38% -24.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 12,351 19,848 21,518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 92.45% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,722 11,791 14,900
10th Percentile £220 £213 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 960 2,571 1,111
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.70 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%
75th Percentile £58.70 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.37 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 3 £349 -
East Midlands - 2 £349 -
South East - 1 £700 - 5
West Midlands - 1 - -
Big Data Engineer
UK

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 June 2025, Big Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Apache
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (50.00%) HBase
3 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Impala
3 2 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (50.00%) Scala
4 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (25.00%) Virgin Media
4 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (25.00%) Databricks
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) Kafka
4 1 (25.00%) Azure

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (50.00%) HBase
3 2 (50.00%) Impala
4 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Virgin Media